Scene shown was shot for the original English language version of BELOW ZERO (1930) but cut for theatrical issue. So this still represents a deleted scene for American and other English-speaking audiences. The supposed “blind” man, played by Robert Burns (sitting in the canvas director’s chair!), has also a subsequent scene, not excised. Both scenes, however, survived in the expanded export editions. Set during the “freezing winter of ’29,” the different versions of BELOW ZERO were actually filmed on the usually bright and sunny Culver City studio backlot during the last two weeks of February, 1930. One day, however, the company was prevented from filming such phony snow scenes outdoors – it was raining. The rest of the time, according to the pressbook account, the weather was “extremely hot.” Yet look how the boys were dressed. They labored through the heat, tried to look cold, but between scenes, makeup people had to wipe perspiration from their faces! So Laurel and Hardy really did suffer for their art.